How is the New Normal treating you? For me and the boys, we still spend most of our time at home with the only time we are out is to school and back. Spending endless time at home also means having in hand lots and lots of games to keep us occupied. When I say games, I don’t mean online games but physical games that we can play together as a family. These are some […]

Since we have been staying home the past few months, my boys have not eaten ‘junk food’ as I don’t usually buy them to keep at home. I do however make healthy snacks for them such as this delicious oven-baked sweet potato fries:  Or this melt-in-your-mouth Chocolate Coated Cheesecake Bars:  I have a lot of sweet potatoes during lockdown that I have made many snacks from it. I did sweet potato ang ku […]

I wanted to bake for a friend who is a vegan and also lactose intolerant. That means eggs and dairy milk are out. That also means cakes are out because I have never bake a cake without eggs or milk. I asked my baker friends and one suggested peanut cookies as it doesn’t require eggs except for the glazing part. I researched further and wooolah – VEGAN PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES and I made them from […]

Question: What’s greater than the combination of chocolate and cheesecake? Answer: A chocolate and cheesecake combo that tastes like ICE CREAM! Rich and creamy cheesecake coated in bittersweet dark chocolate. Eaten chilled, it is just like eating cheesecake ice-cream. The best part is, this chocolate coated cheesecake is ridiculously simple to bake so if you are thinking of hosting and impressing your guests, this is the one dessert that you should try baking. Ingredients: 70g […]

This year we celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival differently. For once, we were neither back in my nor Darling’s hometown. We stayed put here in the Klang Valley. That also means that we would not be able to savor the delicious dumplings from our families. For that very same reason, I tried making dumplings but because I have never done this before, I do not know how to tie the dumplings. Hence I did it […]

It’s the durian season again and we are blessed with an abundance of these King of fruits from my father-in-law’s orchard. While I ate most of them, I also kept some for baking as I simply love durian cakes. I made this super soft and fluffy durian cake using very basic ingredients which are readily available in our pantry. This recipe doesn’t call for the use of baking powder or baking soda as the whipped […]

The Dragon Boat Festival is fast approaching. Due to the current situation we are all in, we won’t be able to balik kampung to celebrate but that doesn’t mean we can’t try making our own dumplings. HOWEVER, the problem is we don’t know how to fold and tie dumplings and with the limited resources we have at home, I had to improvise to come up with this super easy ‘cheat’ way of NO FOLD, NO […]

My boys love to eat salmon. I like my salmon plain but they like it in teriyaki sauce. They’ll order salmon teriyaki whenever we dine at Japanese restaurants. Since we are not able to dine out anymore now, I mean we can dine out but it is obviously safer to stay safe at home with the kids so I made this simple yet super delicious dish for them. Salmon teriyaki has been a regular in […]

Crispy Butter Chicken is one of the easiest ‘restaurant’ dish to replicate at home. Ingredients are very basic which consist of mostly stuffs that we usually already have at home. This deliciously appetizing fried chicken is also one of the boys’ favourite dish hence it is a regular in our weekly menu.   Ingredients: Marinate: 1/4 cup water | air 1 egg white | telur putih 1/2 tsp salt | garam 2 tbs oyster sauce | […]

Ayden loves doughnuts and we used to buy for him whenever we are out shopping. But since we are cooped at home during MCO/CMCO, he has been pestering me to make doughnuts for him which I eventually did.  This is our all-time favourite doughnut recipe. It makes soft and fluffy doughnuts using one secret ingredient. Well, it is not such a secret anymore since I am going to reveal it here anyway. The secret to […]

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If you have been following my Facebook or YouTube channel, you’ll see that we have been keeping ourselves occupied making local kuih muih that we can usually easily get from Bazaar Ramadan. The boys are the happiest, getting to savor all these delicious treats for tea. Click here to see the full list of what we’ve made. Today I’m sharing our favourite Apam Balik which is so simple to make, it’s unbelievable! Ingredients: 220g flour […]

After 50 days of continuous cooking, I finally got my well deserved break on Mother’s Day Though we are unable to dine-out to celebrate, I am still treated like a Queen over a sumptuous Chinese dishes from Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant’s Takeaway menu from One World Hotel PJ We chose Combo Set B with a choice of 4 dishes from the Takeaway menu. The boys and the Daddy arranged this for me. The dishes of […]

The time spent at home has given me the opportunity to explore and improve my cooking / baking skills. The boys are constantly hungry and we are now craving for local delicacies in conjunction with the holy month of Ramadan. Not that we are fasting but our friends are and their many sharing on social media is making us salivating at home.  If previous years, we will just visit the bazaar for our local kuih […]

It is the holy month of Ramadan now. We miss buying those local kuih muih at Ramadan bazaar hence we try to make some ourselves. It is a bit tough as I have limited ingredients at home but I do have everything to make Cucur Ikan Bilis. The boys love this very much that they are already requesting to make it again. Bahan-bahan / Ingredients: 2 cawan tepung gandum  / 2 cups wheat flour 1 […]

On days that Ayden doesn’t have online lessons, he will sometimes help me in the kitchen. Yesterday, he cooked Broccoli with Mushroom in Oyster Sauce.  This is a very simple dish to cook. It takes very little time to prepare and even lesser time to cook. Watch this video to see our Little Chef Ayden dishing it out using our All In One cooker: 

After a month of staying home and about 2 weeks learning from home, the boys are getting comfortable with online learning. Big brother Ethan has to wake up early on certain days for online lessons but the rest of us sleep in till noon 😅 Lil’ Ayden has more homework and video assignments to do compared to Ethan. Today I’m sharing one of his assignment video. He learns Science in Mandarin as he is in […]

It’s 11 days into MCO yet some people are still not heeding the call to stay at home. For folks in PJ, police here have closed several major roads into the district as part of the movement control order (MCO).  The affected roads are Persiaran Mahogani Seksyen 9, Persiaran Jati Seksyen 8 and Persiaran Sungai Buloh which are around the Kota Damansara area. Jalan Gasing road bordering Kuala Lumpur has also been closed. This means […]

During these restricted movement times, we are going to spend all our time at home. I was cooking in the kitchen when I heard Ayden talking. I wondered who he was talking to as Ethan is upstairs. Went out to see him recording a tutorial all by himself 😱 Kids these days…. Anyway here it is! This Paper Plate SUN tutorial video is recorded entirely by Ayden. I need to hide my phone after this. […]

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I’ve tried many types of blackhead remover mask but still haven’t found the one that can remove blackheads effectively until I tried the carbon activated one from My Scheming. I must say I am satisfied with the strength of that mask and my blackheads are gone after I peeled off the mask BUT… this is what it looks like while trying to peel the mask off.  Will I use again after this ordeal? Most probably. […]

The only thing Ethan talks about these days are cubes, football and drums. So to break into his world, I made myself learn one of his language ie cubing. The other day,  I tried to solve the 3×3 while Ethan tries to solve as many cubes as possible before I am done. Did I manage to solve the 3×3? How many cubes did Ethan manage to solve while I was working on my 3×3? Let’s […]

Guys, listen up, this Valentine’s Day, we don’t want chocolates, we don’t want expensive dinners… (we still havent finish digesting all the CNY goodies so stop fattening us up). Just give us gift made of money. Lots and lots of them MONEY gifts. Here are TWO tutorial videos on what you can make out of money. The first is DOLLAR NOTE ORIGAMI HEART and the second is DOLLAR NOTE ROSE. Learn to do these and […]

I had a very fulfilling Chinese New Year celebration back in my hometown this year. We went back on the second day of CNY and I managed to visit almost everyone except my Uncle Benny as we had run out of time and needed to rush back to KL as school reopens quite early for Ethan.  It is the Year of the RAT and since we have 3 rats at home, we celebrate them with […]

If you have been following my blog, you’ll know that I am a regular at Premier Clinic for my acne scars issue. I was first introduced to Premier Clinic when my beautician recommended that I do Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) procedure that claims to be able to improve acne scars. I don’t always jump into the bandwagon without proper research and upon studying it further, I learned that while PRP is quite a simple and safe […]